In a survival situation, you must prioritize what needs to happen first in order for you to survive. This is something that can be difficult for people to process. Folks who are not prepared and informed about what issues are most life-threatening will make poor decisions. A poor decision in a survival situation can cost you your life. One of the biggest problems is relying on what you think is most important and ignoring the facts of life. Life requires water. It is that simple. Every living being needs water to survive. Humans are particularly sensitive in this area. The...

If you have been a busy bee and stored hundreds of gallons of water in various containers, jugs and barrels; you are doing an excellent job. All of that work will pay off when the tap is dry or the water supply is contaminated. You never realize how much you depend on water until it is gone. Really, that is true of anything, but when you are talking about water, it is especially true. You cannot survive without water. You can learn to get by without other things, but water is far too important. All of the water you have...

After a disaster of any kind, you have to assume the water supply is going to be contaminated. If the water is still running from the tap, you will need to purify it and/or filter it before you drink it just in case the processing plants are offline or some sewage or other toxin has entered the water supply. If the tap isn’t running, you are going to have to go and find water, which still demands you filter it before drinking. What if you are in the wild and don’t have a filter with you or you are at...

The single most important thing to stockpile for survival is water. Yet, if you look at most people’s stockpiles, they are woefully short on water. Oh, they’ve got water all right; but when you compare what they’ve got to what they need, it’s clearly not enough. Most of us have been functioning under the concept that we need one gallon of water per person per day for drinking and cooking. That’s basically true; at least, it’s true in a temperate climate. In a hot climate you can sweat out a gallon a day, so you need to drink more than...

By now, pretty much everyone who has any interest in survival has heard that they need one gallon of water per person per day for survival drinking and cooking. While that statement may be true, it’s not complete. Drinking and cooking aren’t the only things we need water for, even in a survival situation. So anyone who is planning one gallon per person per day, isn’t planning enough water. The average American family of four uses a little over 400 gallons of water per day. If only four gallons of that are used for drinking and cooking, what are the...